Tag: comic books

  • Exciting News! Discover our French Comic!

    Our comic has been translated into French by Voix de Femmes! The translation enables more people to read the comic and use it to educate themselves and others about forced marriage, to raise awareness, and develop practices of allyship. The comic is a starting point to discuss questions of consent; healthy relationships; the laws related…

  • Return of the Gods: Comic Books and Classical Literature at Liverpool World Museum

    The World Museum in Liverpool is currently hosting the exhibition Return of the Gods. It shows a collection of over 100 statues that have never been seen together before. It’s a great exhibition, and I recommend you go (if you can – it closes in February). But why am I talking about it here? Well,…

  • Close Reading The Conversation: Forced Marriage and Human Trafficking

    Of course, we aren’t the only folks talking about forced marriage. It’s such a pervasive issue that it’s being addressed around the world. Though this is troubling in terms of how widespread the problem is, it is also reassuring to know that there are a multitude of diverse people tackling it in different ways. For…

  • Conflict-related forced marriage in Army Of God: Joseph Kony’s War in Central Africa 

    Do you remember #BringBackOurGirls? Or the Yezidi women forced into marriage by members of ISIS? They are two of many examples of conflict-related forced marriage. Across many but not all conflicts, a similar pattern emerges. Women and girls are taken by male fighters, forced to marry them, and subjected to various forms of physical, sexual…

  • Get to Know the Team: Anja Koermer

    Who are you? Anja Koermer, Careers Manager for the Lydiate Learning Trust which includes Childwall Sports and Science Academy and Deyes High School. When did you first become interested in careers? I’ve always been fascinated by people and careers work gives me the opportunity to inspire people of all ages to discover possibilities, support them…

  • Let’s Talk About Human Rights and Forced Marriage! – How We Launched Our Comic

    It has taken about thirteen years to arrive at this moment. From the very first glimmer of inspiration in Hannah’s postgraduate mind, to December 2023, with a comic in our hands and a teaching pack online. This year alone has been a whirlwind of school visits, art revisions, and data collection, as well as feedback…

  • A Review of Daria: A Roma Woman’s Journey 

    After reviewing Team Muhafiz and the Child Raiders and Cash Cow, I would like to add Daria: A Roma Woman’s Journey to our list of forced marriage comics.   Source Together, they are painting a more and more complex picture of forced marriage.  They show that forced marriages are a global problem. Statistically speaking, forced marriages…

  • Cash Cow: A Review

    How do I review something so raw and biographical as the multimedia comic, Cash Cow? As a scholar of the arts and humanities, I’m used to assessing fictional gambits like symbol, metaphor and narrative. But this is real. This happened to a living girl – a child – and it’s happening to other children even…

  • Prepare for take off! – Comic Launch

    It is on the internet, therefore it must be true.  Like little elves, we are busily preparing the launch of our comic and a separate but connected panel discussion on human rights education more broadly.   If you want to know more, click the link and scroll down until you find our event. We’d love to see…

  • Diversity in Comics: A Reading List

    In an attempt to make this blog a welcoming corner of the internet, I decided to put together a list of classic comics that any beginner would have a great time reading. But I noticed as I was writing the list that the comics skew a little… well… male. They’re written by men. They’re predominantly…